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Technical Announcement: Bacteria No Match for Deep Floridan Aquifer

A first of its kind study has the potential to impact future regulatory decisions on disinfection practices for water prior to its recharge or following its storage in the Floridan Aquifer. The U.S Geological Survey report found that coliform bacteria die off faster in a regional aquifer system than was previously known, though a small percentage survives. One of the state's regulatory criteria ...

Mar. 11, 2014

By U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Latest summary of EPA actions to ensure safe drinking water in Utah (UT)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 issued 3 administrative orders and 3 notices of violation in Utah from October 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010, under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). Although the State of Utah is authorized to implement the Safe Drinking Water Act, EPA can take federal action against public water systems in the state that violate the SDWA and its regulations. ...

Jun. 8, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Energy and Water Savings through Side Stream Filtration with Pathex

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in the paper "Side Stream Filtration for Cooling Towers" (PNNL, 2012), estimates that substantial energy and water savings can be achieved through the use of a side stream filter on a cooling system. This study predicts a minimum energy savings of 10% and a decrease of blowdown frequency that allows water to be used up to 33% longer before discharge is ...

Jul. 24, 2019

By AS Filtration, LLC

Western Sugar Cooperative to pay US$56,736 penalty and upgrade plant to settle clean water act issues at Scottsbluff, Neb.

Western Sugar Cooperative, of Denver, Col., has agreed to pay a US$56,736 civil penalty, and will spend an additional US$350,000 on plant upgrades to cut pollution and save water and energy, to settle allegations that its sugar beet processing facility in Scottsbluff, Neb., had excessively high discharges of fecal coliform bacteria in wastewater. Western Sugar’s facility at 2100 East ...

Aug. 24, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Latest summary of EPA actions to ensure safe drinking water in Utah (UT)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 issued 4 administrative orders under the Safe Drinking Water Act in Utah from April 1 through September 30, 2010. Although the State of Utah is authorized to implement the Safe Drinking Water Act, EPA can take federal action against public water systems in the state that violate the Act and its regulations. EPA issued administrative orders to ...

Nov. 22, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Child prodigies determined to solve the increasing water problems

Water disinfection without chemicals. Deepika Kurup investigations. Children are also determined to solve the water problems. In view of some investigators youth, Hydroxyl Radicals seem to have its future guaranteed, as an oxidant agent, for water disinfection without chemicals. Deepika Kurup won with just 14 years old the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. She developed a ...

Feb. 14, 2017

By h2o.TITANIUM

EPA orders farmer to provide drinking water to Nearby residence

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued an emergency order under the Safe Drinking Water Act to Kenneth Brockett, owner and operator of the Kenneth Brockett Farm in Tyrone, Pa. after determining that the dairy farm has caused or contributed to the contamination of a nearby well. The order requires the dairy farmer to provide an alternative source of drinking water to the owners of ...

Jul. 19, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

UN camp Mali has drinking water directly from wastewater

High-tech water cycle in the desert In the middle of the desert at the military camp of the United Nations’ Peace Mission in Mali Han Wissink of the MasterMind Company has managed to build a compact water- treatment installation to turn wastewater directly into drinking water. It has not been not a simple task, but mainly thanks to sophisticated online monitoring, including the ...

Mar. 1, 2018

By microLAN B.V. - Aqualabo Group

U.S. addresses sewage discharge violations in Unalaska

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a Clean Water Act complaint on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) against the City of Unalaska, Alaska, and the State of Alaska for long-standing and repeated Clean Water Act violations. According to the complaint, from October 2004 to October 2010, the city’s wastewater treatment plant reported more than 4,800 violations ...

Jun. 23, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Bacteria in water test for eColi

Industrial Test Systems, Inc. (ITS) announces a new, USEPA compliant method for presence/absence determination of Total Coliforms and E. coli in water – EZ Coliform Cult – MUG Test. Each test consists of a sterilized, ready-to-use 120mL bottle containing a premeasured amount of growth media. To run the test simply add the water sample, cap the bottle and then incubate at 35°C for 24 hours (or ...

Mar. 2, 2009

By Industrial Test Systems, Inc.

USGS Releases Results of Gem County Groundwater Quality Study

The entire population of southwestern Idaho’s Gem County depends on aquifers for its drinking water. The water in those aquifers is of generally good quality according to a U.S. Geological Survey report released today. The study was prompted by concerns that rapidly growing population and changes in land use, including potential natural gas exploration and development, might affect the ...

Dec. 21, 2016

By U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Bacterial persistence in streams, say SSSA

A research team from the University of Tennessee (UT) has completed a study on an East Tennessee river to determine the connection between watershed hydrology and fecal bacteria statistical time series analysis. Shesh Koirala and colleagues report their findings in the July-August issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality. The article presents a study of the temporal patterns and statistical ...

Aug. 4, 2008

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

EPA Applauds SCDHEC, Farmers and Landowners for Improving Water Quality in the Enoree River Watershed

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) commends the efforts of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), farmers, and landowners for improving water quality in the Enoree River watershed. Two out of six places in the river and its tributaries are now meeting the state’s bacteria water quality standard for the first time since the late ‘90s. ...

Feb. 4, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA’s limited sampling indicates bacteria in floodwaters at birds point-new madrid floodway in southeast Missouri

Analysis of this week’s limited sampling of floodwaters in the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway in southeast Missouri has indicated the presence of bacteria in nine samples of collected water, EPA Region 7 announced today. EPA crews on Tuesday, May 24, conducted surface water sampling at four locations within the floodway to determine if any threats might be present for emergency response ...

May 26, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Orders Public Water System on Indian Reservation in Riverside County to Address Arsenic in Drinking Water

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week ordered D&D Mobile Home Park to address violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act. D&D, located on the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Reservation in Riverside County, was found to have high levels of arsenic in its public system that provides drinking water to its 300 mobile park residents. The order requires D&D to come into ...

Sep. 10, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Received USCG Certificate Approval for BioBarrier MarineMBR Series

SUNSET HILLS, MO – July 2020 – Scienco/FAST is proud to offer the newly certified BioBarrier® MarineMBR™ series of Type II Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) to the marine marketplace. With its long performance history of providing the affordable, adaptable, and proven FAST® Systems, Scienco/FAST offers a higher treatment option with membrane technology to remove 99.9% of the ...

Jul. 28, 2020

By BioMicrobics, Inc.

Don’t drink the water – Thousands in Canada can’t drink their water

A new report from the Council of Canadians reveals that as of January there were 1,838 drinking water advisories in effect across Canada, warning people not to drink their water straight from the tap. The report, On Notice for a Drinking Water Crisis is the first in many years to document the drinking water advisories (DWA) across Canada. On Notice reveals that there were 1,669 drinking water ...

Mar. 12, 2015

By GLOBE SERIES

Bacteria in water test for eColi

Industrial Test Systems, Inc. (ITS) announces a new, USEPA compliant method for presence/absence determination of Total Coliforms and E. coli in water – EZ Coliform Cult – MUG Test. Each test consists of a sterilized, ready-to-use 120mL bottle containing a premeasured amount of growth media. To run the test simply add the water sample, cap the bottle and then incubate at 35°C for ...

Sep. 29, 2008

By Industrial Test Systems, Inc.

New regulation for aircraft drinking water

Aircraft passengers and crews will be able to drink safer water under new regulations proposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The proposed Aircraft Drinking Water Rule (ADWR) will tailor existing health-based drinking water regulations to fit the unique characteristics of aircraft public water systems. The rule will protect the public from illnesses that can result from ...

Apr. 1, 2008

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA addresses water quality issues in Gloucester

Boston, Mass.-- In order to advance healthy water quality in the coastal areas of Cape Ann near the City of Gloucester, EPA is proposing a draft decision to deny the extension of a waiver of Clean Water Act requirements that has allowed the City to discharge wastewater receiving only primary treatment from its wastewater treatment facility into Massachusetts Bay. Gloucester has applied to EPA ...

Nov. 5, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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